From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gleb Natapov Subject: Re: [PULL 3.8 0/1] ppc patch queue 2013-01-18 for 3.8 Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:40:55 +0200 Message-ID: <20130121104055.GJ31120@redhat.com> References: <1358466506-6587-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de> <20130118105544.GE10107@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Alexander Graf , kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org, KVM list To: Ben Collins Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-ppc-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 07:23:53AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > On Jan 18, 2013, at 7:14 AM, Alexander Graf wrote: > > > > > On 18.01.2013, at 11:55, Gleb Natapov wrote: > > > >> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:48:25AM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote: > >>> Hi Marcelo / Gleb, > >>> > >>> This is my current patch queue for ppc against 3.8. Please pull. > >>> > >>> It contains a bug fix for an issue that Ben Collins ran into, where > >>> a guest would just abort because it traps during an unknown instruction. > >>> > >> Is this regression from 3.7? If it is not it should wait for 3.9. > > > > The first time I heard of this was with a 3.8 guest. But we can also wait for 3.9 and push it through stable afterwards. > > It's such a simple change, what is the issue with including it? If the bug is hit, qemu/kvm exits anyway, so adding the patch can't do any damage. > If we continue pushing simple changes that can't do any damage to late -rc trees 3.8 will never be ready to released. The patch can go to stable after 3.8 is released. Again if this is indeed regression this another matter. -- Gleb.